Abigail Durrant
Biographic Data
| ID | 642712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abigail Durrant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abigail |
| FAMILY NAME | Durrant |
| SIGNATURE | DURRANT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4752-5376 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Perspectives of healthcare professionals and people living with HIV in dialogue: On information sharing to improve communication at the consultation
We report on a qualitative Group Survey study involving four healthcare professionals (HCPs) and eight people living with HIV who were recipients of care in the United Kingdom (UK). The survey aimed to bring participants' perspectives into dialogue and establish consensus about how communication between HCPs delivering HIV care and their patients could be improved in the context of the routine care consultation. Responses from both parties were a…
Post-mortem information management: Exploring contextual factors in appropriate personal data access after death
With the increasing size and complexity of personal information and data landscapes, there is a need for guidance and support in the appropriate management of a deceased person's postmortem privacy and digital legacy. However, most people engage poorly with existing mechanisms for specifying and planning for access and suitable usage of their own data. We report on two studies exploring the ways in which contextual factors such as the accessor an…
Chugging along, plugging in and out of it: Understanding a place-based approach for community-based support of mental health recovery
Community-based Mental Health (MH) organisations in the United Kingdom (UK) are facing challenges for sustaining in-person service delivery. Without empirical evidence that demonstrates the value of a place-based approach for MH recovery, and the types of resources needed to build nurturing spaces for peer support, community-based MH organisations will struggle to maintain their physical spaces. We present empirical insights from a case study inv…
Health stigma on Twitter: Investigating the prevalence and type of stigma communication in tweets about different conditions and disorders
Background Health-related stigma can act as a barrier to seeking treatment and can negatively impact wellbeing. Comparing stigma communication across different conditions may generate insights previously lacking from condition-specific approaches and help to broaden our understanding of health stigma as a whole. Method A sequential explanatory mixed-methods approach was used to investigate the prevalence and type of health-related stigma on Twitt…
A ‘planning revolution’ or an ‘attack on planning’ in England: Digitization, digitalization, and democratization
This article focuses on the planning–technology nexus. Recent work explores the potential of digital technology in overcoming the longstanding limitations of a lack of public engagement and citizen empowerment in the planning process. In August 2020, the Government published a White Paper to democratize, digitize, and digitalize the planning system. We interrogate whether these radical reforms constitute a ‘planning revolution’ or an ‘attack on p…
Creative and collaborative reflective thinking to support policy deliberation and decision making
Background: Co-creation in policymaking is of increasing interest to national governments, and designers play a significant role in its introduction. Aims and objectives: We discuss instances from our fieldwork that demonstrated how UK Policy Lab used design methods to gain insight into the design-oriented methods introduced to policymakers’ practices, and how these may influence conventional policy design processes. Methods: This paper reports o…
“Support for the supporters”: A qualitative study of the use of WhatsApp by and for mentor mothers with HIV in the UK
Third-sector organizations, an important support for people living with HIV, increasingly use digital technology to improve service efficiency and reach. However, there is limited empirical evidence on this use by women living with HIV. The 4M Network (4MNet) is a peer-run UK-wide network of trained Mentor Mothers (MMs) living with HIV; it uses the WhatsApp platform as its primary digital communication tool. We report on a qualitative study about…
Opportunities and challenges of the digital lifespan: Views of service providers and citizens in the UK
Information about UK citizens’ use of digital technologies is often expressed in statistics – x% lack Internet access; y% get online to engage in online banking, update social media sites, or participate in online auctions. There are many social implications to digital technology use, however – individuals may communicate online as a major way to stay in touch with friends and family, and as Internet access rises and government and public sector …
Demo hour
forum Share on Demo hour Authors: Chang Hee Lee Royal College of Art Royal College of ArtView Profile , Dan Lockton Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon UniversityView Profile , David Verweij Northumbria University Northumbria UniversityView Profile , David Kirk Northumbria University Northumbria UniversityView Profile , Kay Rogage Northumbria University Northumbria UniversityView Profile , Abigail Durrant Northumbria University Northumbria…
Digital photographic practices as expressions of personhood and identity: Variations Across School Leavers and Recent Retirees
Over the last two decades, digital photography has been adopted by young and old. Many young adults easily take photos, share them across multiple social networks using smartphones, and create digital identities for themselves consciously and unconsciously. Is the same true for older adults? As part of a larger mixed-methods study of online life in the UK, we considered digital photographic practices at two life transitions: leaving secondary sch…
Fitter, happier, more productive: What to Ask of a Data-Driven Life
column Share on Fitter, happier, more productive: what to ask of a data-driven life Authors: Chris Elsden Newcastle University Newcastle UniversityView Profile , Mark Selby University of Edinburgh University of EdinburghView Profile , Abigail Durrant Newcastle University Newcastle UniversityView Profile , David Kirk Newcastle University Newcastle UniversityView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 23Issue 5September + October 2016 pp …
A Quantified Past: Toward Design for Remembering With Personal Informatics
This article questions how people will interact with a quantified past-the growing historical record generated by the increasing use of sensor-based technologies and, in particular, personal informatics tools. In a qualitative study, we interviewed 15 long-term users of different self-tracking tools about how they encountered and made meaning from historical data they had collected. Our findings highlight that even if few people are self-tracking…
Pursuing Leisure: Reflections on Theme Park Visiting
Mediating genocide: Cultural understanding through digital and print media stories in global communication
The rise of digital media is creating new ways for media producers and users to engage with stories from around the world. The use of stories is a common way for content to be shared. The global communication space for sharing stories is referred to as the mediapolis, and it incorporates networked interactions mediated through digital technology and traditional media such as print media. The mediapolis generates ways for users to engage with medi…
The secret life of teens: Online versus offline photographic displays at home
In this article we describe findings from a recent study in which we interviewed four British teenage girls about their photo display practices, online and offline, in family homes. We adopted a phenomenological approach to inquiry, with a particular interest in exploring how photographic representations of self and family signal self-development in emerging adulthood. Findings reveal how teens portrayed themselves differently to friends, online,…
A Quantified Past: Toward Design for Remembering With Personal Informatics
This article questions how people will interact with a quantified past-the growing historical record generated by the increasing use of sensor-based technologies and, in particular, personal informatics tools. In a qualitative study, we interviewed 15 long-term users of different self-tracking tools about how they encountered and made meaning from historical data they had collected. Our findings highlight that even if few people are self-tracking…
Chugging along, plugging in and out of it: Understanding a place-based approach for community-based support of mental health recovery
Community-based Mental Health (MH) organisations in the United Kingdom (UK) are facing challenges for sustaining in-person service delivery. Without empirical evidence that demonstrates the value of a place-based approach for MH recovery, and the types of resources needed to build nurturing spaces for peer support, community-based MH organisations will struggle to maintain their physical spaces. We present empirical insights from a case study inv…
Creative and collaborative reflective thinking to support policy deliberation and decision making
Background: Co-creation in policymaking is of increasing interest to national governments, and designers play a significant role in its introduction. Aims and objectives: We discuss instances from our fieldwork that demonstrated how UK Policy Lab used design methods to gain insight into the design-oriented methods introduced to policymakers’ practices, and how these may influence conventional policy design processes. Methods: This paper reports o…
Digital photographic practices as expressions of personhood and identity: Variations Across School Leavers and Recent Retirees
Over the last two decades, digital photography has been adopted by young and old. Many young adults easily take photos, share them across multiple social networks using smartphones, and create digital identities for themselves consciously and unconsciously. Is the same true for older adults? As part of a larger mixed-methods study of online life in the UK, we considered digital photographic practices at two life transitions: leaving secondary sch…
The secret life of teens: Online versus offline photographic displays at home
In this article we describe findings from a recent study in which we interviewed four British teenage girls about their photo display practices, online and offline, in family homes. We adopted a phenomenological approach to inquiry, with a particular interest in exploring how photographic representations of self and family signal self-development in emerging adulthood. Findings reveal how teens portrayed themselves differently to friends, online,…
Pursuing Leisure: Reflections on Theme Park Visiting
Mediating genocide: Cultural understanding through digital and print media stories in global communication
The rise of digital media is creating new ways for media producers and users to engage with stories from around the world. The use of stories is a common way for content to be shared. The global communication space for sharing stories is referred to as the mediapolis, and it incorporates networked interactions mediated through digital technology and traditional media such as print media. The mediapolis generates ways for users to engage with medi…
A Quantified Past: Toward Design for Remembering With Personal Informatics
This article questions how people will interact with a quantified past-the growing historical record generated by the increasing use of sensor-based technologies and, in particular, personal informatics tools. In a qualitative study, we interviewed 15 long-term users of different self-tracking tools about how they encountered and made meaning from historical data they had collected. Our findings highlight that even if few people are self-tracking…
Fitter, happier, more productive: What to Ask of a Data-Driven Life
column Share on Fitter, happier, more productive: what to ask of a data-driven life Authors: Chris Elsden Newcastle University Newcastle UniversityView Profile , Mark Selby University of Edinburgh University of EdinburghView Profile , Abigail Durrant Newcastle University Newcastle UniversityView Profile , David Kirk Newcastle University Newcastle UniversityView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 23Issue 5September + October 2016 pp …
Digital photographic practices as expressions of personhood and identity: Variations Across School Leavers and Recent Retirees
Over the last two decades, digital photography has been adopted by young and old. Many young adults easily take photos, share them across multiple social networks using smartphones, and create digital identities for themselves consciously and unconsciously. Is the same true for older adults? As part of a larger mixed-methods study of online life in the UK, we considered digital photographic practices at two life transitions: leaving secondary sch…
Opportunities and challenges of the digital lifespan: Views of service providers and citizens in the UK
Information about UK citizens’ use of digital technologies is often expressed in statistics – x% lack Internet access; y% get online to engage in online banking, update social media sites, or participate in online auctions. There are many social implications to digital technology use, however – individuals may communicate online as a major way to stay in touch with friends and family, and as Internet access rises and government and public sector …
Demo hour
forum Share on Demo hour Authors: Chang Hee Lee Royal College of Art Royal College of ArtView Profile , Dan Lockton Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon UniversityView Profile , David Verweij Northumbria University Northumbria UniversityView Profile , David Kirk Northumbria University Northumbria UniversityView Profile , Kay Rogage Northumbria University Northumbria UniversityView Profile , Abigail Durrant Northumbria University Northumbria…
“Support for the supporters”: A qualitative study of the use of WhatsApp by and for mentor mothers with HIV in the UK
Third-sector organizations, an important support for people living with HIV, increasingly use digital technology to improve service efficiency and reach. However, there is limited empirical evidence on this use by women living with HIV. The 4M Network (4MNet) is a peer-run UK-wide network of trained Mentor Mothers (MMs) living with HIV; it uses the WhatsApp platform as its primary digital communication tool. We report on a qualitative study about…
A ‘planning revolution’ or an ‘attack on planning’ in England: Digitization, digitalization, and democratization
This article focuses on the planning–technology nexus. Recent work explores the potential of digital technology in overcoming the longstanding limitations of a lack of public engagement and citizen empowerment in the planning process. In August 2020, the Government published a White Paper to democratize, digitize, and digitalize the planning system. We interrogate whether these radical reforms constitute a ‘planning revolution’ or an ‘attack on p…
Creative and collaborative reflective thinking to support policy deliberation and decision making
Background: Co-creation in policymaking is of increasing interest to national governments, and designers play a significant role in its introduction. Aims and objectives: We discuss instances from our fieldwork that demonstrated how UK Policy Lab used design methods to gain insight into the design-oriented methods introduced to policymakers’ practices, and how these may influence conventional policy design processes. Methods: This paper reports o…
Health stigma on Twitter: Investigating the prevalence and type of stigma communication in tweets about different conditions and disorders
Background Health-related stigma can act as a barrier to seeking treatment and can negatively impact wellbeing. Comparing stigma communication across different conditions may generate insights previously lacking from condition-specific approaches and help to broaden our understanding of health stigma as a whole. Method A sequential explanatory mixed-methods approach was used to investigate the prevalence and type of health-related stigma on Twitt…
Perspectives of healthcare professionals and people living with HIV in dialogue: On information sharing to improve communication at the consultation
We report on a qualitative Group Survey study involving four healthcare professionals (HCPs) and eight people living with HIV who were recipients of care in the United Kingdom (UK). The survey aimed to bring participants' perspectives into dialogue and establish consensus about how communication between HCPs delivering HIV care and their patients could be improved in the context of the routine care consultation. Responses from both parties were a…
Post-mortem information management: Exploring contextual factors in appropriate personal data access after death
With the increasing size and complexity of personal information and data landscapes, there is a need for guidance and support in the appropriate management of a deceased person's postmortem privacy and digital legacy. However, most people engage poorly with existing mechanisms for specifying and planning for access and suitable usage of their own data. We report on two studies exploring the ways in which contextual factors such as the accessor an…
Chugging along, plugging in and out of it: Understanding a place-based approach for community-based support of mental health recovery
Community-based Mental Health (MH) organisations in the United Kingdom (UK) are facing challenges for sustaining in-person service delivery. Without empirical evidence that demonstrates the value of a place-based approach for MH recovery, and the types of resources needed to build nurturing spaces for peer support, community-based MH organisations will struggle to maintain their physical spaces. We present empirical insights from a case study inv…
Computer Science (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Internet privacy (5 works) · World Wide Web (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Business (3 works)